Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

No. 459,644. Patented Sept. 15, 1891 4 A lin-ll WIW/19553:

UNITED STATES vPATENT OFFICE..

JAMES VELLINGTON MCOANDLESS, OF FLORENCE, COLORADO.

CLOTHESQDRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,644, dated September 15, 1891.

Application led March 10, 1891. Serial No. 384,413. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, JAMES WELLINGTON Mc- OANDLESS, of Florence, in the county of Fremont and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Driers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in driers, and has for its object to provide a device adapted for drying clothes, fish, dre., capable of being used indoors and out, and so constructed that it may be folded up when not in use and stored away in a small space, and also capable of being conveniently and expeditiously expanded when required for drying purposes.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the drier in a form adapted for use indoors. Fig. 2 is a partial vertical section through the drier folded. Fig. 3 is a partial side elevation of the post and standard of the drier, illustrating the elevating mechanism employed in connection therewith when used out of doors, and Fig. et is a detail view of the runner-collar.

A standard 10, consisting of a tube or rod, is secured at its lower end in a ferrule 11, and the upper end of the standard is loosely passed through a cap-plate 12. The cap-plate 12 is free to revolve upon the standard and is provided with a series of slots in its periphery,

and in each of said slots one end of a rod 13 is pivoted, preferably constructed of galvanized spring-wire. A disk or nut 14, serving in the capacity of a'runner, is held to slide loosely upon the standard 10, and the runner is also provided in its periphery with a series of slots, in each of which slots one end of a spring-wire 15 is pivoted. The lower wires 15 are preferably curved upward at their outer ends, as illustrated at ct, and provided with an eye, and each of the lower wires 15 is connected with one of the upper wires 13, the usual manner of forming the connection being through the medium of interlocking eyes, as illustrated. The outer ends of the connected wires are united by a series of links 16, two links being employed preferably between adjoining connected wires, as is illustrated in Fig. 1. The runner 14 is provided with a hub having an annular groove produced therein, and on the grooved surface a collar 17' is loosely mounted. The collar has attached thereto a handle 1S, the upper end of the handle engaging with the collar,being preferably bifurcated. The collar is usually made'in two sections connected by bolts, as shown in Fig. 4, and one bolt may be a ringbolt-that is, the head may be shaped as a ring.

Vhen the drier is to be used indoors, it is usually mounted upon a tripod A, which tripod consists of a body-section 19, fitted in the socket or ferrule 11 and provided with folding pivoted legs 20. Vhen, however, the drier is to be used out of doors, it may be attached to a fixed post 21, as shown in Fig. 3, and as this style of drier may be made quite large the handle 1S thereof is connected with a lever 22, which lever is fulcrumed upon the post 21, and said lever not only serves to open and close the drier, but acts as a brake when extra pressure or tension is exerted thereon. The shank of a hook 23 is connected with the collar of the ferrule, preferably through the medium of one of its boltsthe ring-bolt, if it be employed-which hook, when the drier is open, is adapted to engage with the head of a pin 24 or its equivalent, usually located upon the ferrule 11. The

`said pin may, if desired, constitute the fastening of the ferrule to the tripod or post.

In operation, when the -drier has been set up by drawing down upon the handle 18 or upon the lever 22 the runner 14 is drawn downward also, and the lower wires 15 are made to assume a horizontal position, causing the upper wires to spread like the ribs of an umbrella-frame and the hook 23 to engage with the pin 24 and maintain the drier in an open position. When the device is not in use, the handle 18 or the lever 22 is pushed upward, and as the runner slides upward the inner wires fold parallel with the upper wires and both sets of wires drop around the standard 10 and fold closely around said standard IOO as the links 16 drop downward out of the way, as shown in Fig. 2. .By reason of the frame of the device being` pivotally connected with the standard lO it may be revolved, thus obvlating the necessity of the operator Walking` around the device when placing clothes upon or removing them from it.

l-.Iaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A clothes-drier comprising the standard having a head at its upper end, a runner thereunder, wires 13 l5, pivoted at their inner ends to the head and runner, respectively, and provided at their outer ends with interlocking' eyes, as shown at ci, and connected links le', pivoially connected at their opposite ends to the eyes a of the lower wires, substantially as shown and described.

A drier comprising the standard 10, head l2, runner 14, arms pivoted to each other and to said head and runner, a ferrnle or cap at the lower end oi' the standard, a collar provided With an operating-lever for raising and lowering the runner, a pivoted latch depending from the said collar, and a head or stud projecting from said ferrule oreap to be engaged by said latch when the runner is lowered, substantially as set forth.

JAMES WELLINGTON MCGANDLESS.

\Vitnesses:

N. F. CLARK, J. M. llANKs. 

